{"id":309631,"date":"2019-02-20T10:50:38","date_gmt":"2019-02-20T10:50:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=309631"},"modified":"2019-02-20T11:23:59","modified_gmt":"2019-02-20T11:23:59","slug":"terrorism-a-common-concern-says-saudi-crown-prince","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/terrorism-a-common-concern-says-saudi-crown-prince\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Terrorism a common concern&#8221;, says Saudi Crown Prince"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-309632 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Screenshot_20190220-161939__01-300x234.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"614\" height=\"479\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/02\/Screenshot_20190220-161939__01-300x234.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/02\/Screenshot_20190220-161939__01-768x598.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/02\/Screenshot_20190220-161939__01-1024x797.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/02\/Screenshot_20190220-161939__01-696x542.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/02\/Screenshot_20190220-161939__01-1068x831.jpg 1068w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/02\/Screenshot_20190220-161939__01-540x420.jpg 540w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/02\/Screenshot_20190220-161939__01.jpg 1074w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 614px) 100vw, 614px\" \/>Saudi Arabia&#8217;s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman on Wednesday said terrorism is a &#8220;common concern&#8221; with India and his country is ready to share intelligence to tackle it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">The crown prince said, &#8220;On the issue of extremism and terrorism, which is a common concern, we want to tell India that we will cooperate in every way.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">Speaking at a joint press conference with Prime Minister Narendra Modi in New Delhi, the crown prince said Saudi Arabia will &#8220;cooperate with India and neighbouring states&#8221; on the matter.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">India and Saudi Arabia have agreed that in order to combat the menace of terrorism effectively, there is a need to put all possible pressure on countries that aid and abet terror in any form.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">Prime Minister Narendra Modi today welcomed Crown Prince at Hyderabad House, New Delhi.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">\u201cIn the 21st century, Saudi Arabia is one of the closest strategic partners of India. They are a close friend of India, Modi said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">\u201cSaudi Arabia is one of India&#8217;s most valuable strategic partners. Our relations have grown stronger. I welcome Saudi investment in Indian infrastructure,\u201d Modi added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">The Crown prince arrived in New Delhi on Tuesday evening for a two-day official visit. He was warmly received by Prime Minister\u00a0Narendra Modi\u00a0at the airport.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saudi Arabia&#8217;s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman on Wednesday said terrorism is a &#8220;common concern&#8221; with India and his country is ready to share intelligence to tackle it. The crown prince said, &#8220;On the issue of extremism and terrorism, which is a common concern, we want to tell India that we will cooperate in every [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":309632,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[2033,316,1782],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309631"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=309631"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309631\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":309634,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309631\/revisions\/309634"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/309632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}